This track comes from Aaron's military service — Air Force enlisted, Army Infantry officer, DoD civilian at SPAWAR/NIWC. It tackles The person who keeps you grounded when your ambition wants to fly you into the sun - love as the healthy anchor. The lyrics get specific — "Run that I'm on, the startup high, the manic phase" — because personal tracks on Majik's are personal for real, not performatively. The R&B production matches the energy of the confession. It hits romantic and warm, in that order. Every personal track in the catalogue comes from a real moment, a real feeling, a real person. This one is no exception.
[verse 1]
I was orbiting at dangerous altitudes
Too many projects, too many attitudes
About how sleep is for the weak and rest is for the finished
Burning fuel at a rate that should have diminished
Me to ash, but you walked into the trajectory
With a smile that said sit down, eat something healthy
You didn't clip my wings, you gave them a reason
To come back down to earth at the end of the season
Of hustle, you're the gravity that makes sense
The force that pulls me home without the pretense
[chorus]
Gravity girl, you keep me from floating away
Into the stratosphere of another eighteen-hour day
Gravity girl, your pull is the perfect weight
Not too heavy, not too late
Just enough to bring me back
To the life that matters when I lose the track
Gravity girl
[verse 2]
You don't understand the code and you don't have to
You understand the coder and that's what anchors through
The late nights and the launches and the failures and the wins
You're there at every altitude, that's where love begins
I told you about the platform, eyes all lit up bright
You said that's amazing, babe, but have you eaten tonight
And that's the gravity I need, the practical pull
Of someone who sees the man, not just the bull
Run that I'm on, the startup high, the manic phase
You see the human underneath the craze
[chorus]
Gravity girl, you keep me from floating away
Into the stratosphere of another eighteen-hour day
Gravity girl, your pull is the perfect weight
Not too heavy, not too late
Just enough to bring me back
To the life that matters when I lose the track
Gravity girl
[bridge]
I used to think that anchors were the enemy
That anything that slowed me down was limiting me
But you showed me that the right kind of weight
Is what keeps the balloon from a terrible fate
Of flying too high where the air gets thin
And the dream pops, and you lose the skin
Of who you are, so thank you for the tether
Gravity girl, you make the altitude better
[verse 3]
So when I'm up at five AM and you're still sleeping
I leave the coffee warming because you're worth the keeping
Of small traditions, human rituals, morning kisses
The gravity of love in all its different dishes
You're the reason Folly Beach is home and not a stop
The reason I can fly all day and never want to drop
Because dropping into your gravity is the softest landing
An unconventional technologist ever had, outstanding
How the right person makes the tension beautiful
Between the anchors and the wings, you make it musical
[chorus]
Gravity girl, you keep me from floating away
Into the stratosphere of another eighteen-hour day
Gravity girl, your pull is the perfect weight
Not too heavy, never late
Just enough to bring me back
To the life that matters, you're my favorite track
Gravity girl
[outro]
Keep pulling me home
I'll keep flying back to you
Gravity girl
